31 Mar 2015 - Employees of the Jerusalem City Council demolished, on Tuesday morning, some sections of Palestinian home, a horse barn and some walls, in the Market area (al-Hisba) in Wad al-Jouz neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. ...

31 Mar 2015 - Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, three Palestinians near the central West Bank city of Nablus, and a young man in occupied Jerusalem; two women and one child kidnapped, late on Monday, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque. ...

30 Mar 2015 - A Jerusalem court found former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, guilty of corruption on Monday, over allegations that he received envelopes of cash from a US businessman, Israeli media reported. ...

3/30/2015 - International Solidarity Movement - March 30, 2015, Ramallah team, Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine - Video by Anarchists Against the Wall - On the 28th of March 2015, close to 200 protesters from all over the West Bank gathered in Nabi Saleh to protest the occupation in commemoration of...

31 Mar 2015 Iran is willing to continue talks with six major powers on a preliminary political agreement that will be used as a basis of a comprehensive nuclear deal, a senior nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday.

31 Mar 2015 The Future Bloc hailed the Saudi-led military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen on Tuesday, criticizing remarks made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and voicing support for the stance taken by Prime Minister Tammam Salam.

31 Mar 2015 - Op-ed: Contrary to all rational thought, the president and his European partners are about to sign an agreement that will allow Iran to pose a serious threat to Israel, the Mideast - and the entire world. ....

31 Mar 2015 - Analysis: If signed, the framework agreement between Tehran and world powers will mostly serve as a lifeline for the Shiite terror state, saving it from economic collapse; also, should Israel worry about the formation of a united Arab military over the war in Yemen? ....

31 Mar 2015 - Op-ed: While the former prime minister had military and diplomatic courage and was praised by senior officials who worked under him, he was afflicted with both personal and political corruption. ....

30 Mar 2015 - Op-ed: Instead of warning against Israel's law-abiding and loyal Arab citizens, the prime minister should have focused on the Joint Arab List, which undermines Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state and has leaders who feel closer to Hamas. ....

30 Mar 2015 - Orly Azoulay finds herself watching Netanyahu's Congress speech from the lobby of an Iranian hotel, and encounters a country desperate for a deal that will free it from crippling sanctions. ....

29 Mar 2015 - Two newspapers in Beit Shemesh refuse to publish a sock store's ad showing the feet of a two-year-old girl. 'The radicals think they can run our lives, but I won't be part of it,' says ultra-Orthodox store owner. ....

Palestine Monitor 31 Mar 2015 - June 25, 2012-Five hundred people marched in Susiya, South Hebron on Friday to protest the planned demolition of 45 structures in the village. The peaceful march was violently stopped by ....

Palestine Monitor 31 Mar 2015 - June 26, 2012- Koufrdan is a small village located a few kilometers west of the Palestinian city of Jenin. Its wells provide the main source of water for Palestinian farmers in the area due to its large amount of groundwater. It is the only village in...

Palestine Monitor 31 Mar 2015 - June 24, 2012- After undergoing 71 days without food, Palestinian prisoner Hasan Safadi is back on hunger strike protesting the renewal of his administrative detention, a breach of the....

Mondoweiss 31 Mar 2015 - This is part of Marc H. Ellis’s “Exile and the Prophetic” feature for Mondoweiss. To read the entire series visit the archive page. Among Jews, the hoopla surrounding the upcoming Passover holidays continues as it does every year. This, despite the seemingly unusual circumstances of celebrating...

Muzzlewatch 31 Mar 2015 - In defiance against attempts at censorship, Students for Justice in Palestine activists at Pitzer College in Claremont California will erect a mock Apartheid Wall to educate their campus about the Israeli occupation and how Israeli policies confiscate Palestinian land and separate Palestinian families and communities. Here is...

Mondoweiss 31 Mar 2015 - This is the story of a tragedy inside the Jewish community. The four American Jews above are on a national campus tour. All in their 70s, they are veterans of the civil rights movement; they went south 50 years ago to help free our country from...

Tikun Olam 31 Mar 2015 - As the deadline looms for the P5+1 nations to achieve a framework for a nuclear deal with Iran, the steady drumbeat of hostile coverage directed at Iran in the media increases. Jim White at Empty Wheel, in two good posts , noted a tendentious Washington Post op-ed...

Mondoweiss 30 Mar 2015 - Today, March 30 th Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, marched for Land Day, Yom al-Arda in Arabic, which commemorates protest in the Galilee in 1976 where six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed. The main marches today were held in the village of...

Mondoweiss 30 Mar 2015 - Here’s a video of Max Blumenthal speaking about anti-Semitism at University of Glasgow last month, a brief part of his Israeli Apartheid Week 2015 presentation at the college. I contacted the person who uploaded the clip, a reader and commenter here, these are his words: The perverse and...

Mondoweiss 30 Mar 2015 - With one day left before the deadline for an agreement on the contours of an Iranian nuclear deal, negotiations look set to go “down to the wire”, in the White House’s phrase – or possibly past it. Iranian deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi reported no progress on...

Tikun Olam 30 Mar 2015 - Sima Shine, Israeli ‘trailblazer’ who got to the top the old-fashioned way On Israel Independence Day, several exemplary Israelis are chosen to light the torch at a special national ceremony marking the commencement of the day. This year, the theme of the ceremony will be: trailblazers. ...

The Foward Breaking News 31 Mar 2015 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday the framework Iranian nuclear agreement being sought by international negotiators will leave Iran with the capability to develop a nuclear weapon in under a year. Click here for the rest of the article...

The Foward Breaking News 31 Mar 2015 - Palestine will raise the stakes in a legal battle with Israel on Wednesday when it joins the International Criminal Court, but any case over alleged crimes in the occupied territories is unlikely to come to trial for some years - if ever. Click here for the...

The Forward New 31 Mar 2015 - Israel’s own Black Panthers once latched onto the Passover story to challenge Ashkenazi domination in the Jewish state. The radicals issued their own Haggadah, which mentioned strikes and injustice — but not God. Click here for the rest of the article...

The Forward New 30 Mar 2015 - Ex-Navy Seal Eric Greitens is plunging into the GOP primary for Missouri governor — the same race shaken by the suicide of a candidate dogged by an anti-Jewish ‘whisper campaign.’ Click here for the rest of the article...

allAfrica.com 31 Mar 2015 - [Algerie Presse Service] Sharm El Sheik -Representative of President of the Republic at the 26th Arab Summit, Abdelkader Bensalah, underlined Saturday in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) the need to adapt the system of the joint Arab action to the current requirements, advocating in this regard a methodology...

allAfrica.com 31 Mar 2015 - [Shabelle] The first group of Somalia refugees fleeing conflict in Yemen, on Monday, has reached in Djibouti, as a Saudi-led coalition continued to strike Houthi targets around the country for a 5th day, according to Djibouti foreign minister.

allAfrica.com 31 Mar 2015 - [Ethiopia Government] An Ethiopian delegation of over thirty business representatives, headed by Shisema Gebresilassie, Head of the Addis Ababa City Government Trade and Industry Development Bureau and Getachew Regasa, Secretary General, Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations, has met with forty private sector businesses...

allAfrica.com 31 Mar 2015 - [Dalsan Radio] Somali national assembly members have called upon the government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohmaud to help evacuate Somali refugees caught up in Yemeni conflict.

allAfrica.com 31 Mar 2015 - [Daily News] PAKISTAN Ambassador, Mr Muhammad Iqbal, has thanked Tanzanian government for extending help and cooperation to Pakistani community who are taking active part in socio-economic uplift of the country.

Rachel Corrie Foundation 30 Mar 2015 - Indigenous Peoples and Academic Freedom in the New Era of Civility Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 11am – 1pm Lecture Hall I The Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington Free and Open to the Public Salaita is a former Associate Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University....

Arab American Institute 30 Mar 2015 - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio�s recent announcement that public schools in New York City will be closed in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holidays, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, represents a meaningful achievement for the American Muslim community in New York, but...

3/30/2015 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Three Palestinians where shot and injured by Israeli forces in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, a medical official said Monday. Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said two youths were shot east of Khan Younis...

3/30/2015 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces delivered demolition notices to seven Palestinians in the village of Qasra in southern Nablus on Monday. Locals said the notices were for water wells and steel structures used for farming purposes that belong to Palestinians living...

3/30/2015 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Thousands of Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza took part in marches on Monday to mark the 39th anniversary of Land Day, commemorating Palestinian protests against Israeli land seizures that were violently suppressed on Mar. 30...

3/30/2015 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- A four-day march led by Palestinian-Israeli MPs in solidarity with Israel's impoverished Bedouin community wound up on Sunday at Israel's presidency. President Reuven Rivlin's office said Palestinian representatives delivered a report on the hardships...

3/30/2015 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- More than 2,000 Palestinians in southern Nablus took part in a march to mark the 39th anniversary of Land Day on Monday, commemorating Palestinian protests against Israeli land seizures that were violently suppressed on Mar. 30, 1976. More...

3/30/2015 - LAUSANNE (AFP) -- Down-to-the-wire nuclear talks with Iran remained blocked on three major issues, a Western diplomat said Monday on the eve of a deadline to agree the outlines of a deal. It was "yes or no" time, the diplomat said, adding that...

3/30/2015 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers on Monday that any nuclear deal they strike with Iran would be seen as a reward for Tehran's alleged "aggression" in Yemen." The agreement being formulated in Lausanne sends a...

3/30/2015 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- A Jerusalem court found former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert guilty of corruption Monday over allegations that he received envelopes of cash from a US businessman, Israeli media reported. It was the latest legal blow in a humiliating fall from...

3/30/2015 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Ministry of Civil Affairs announced on Monday that approximately 15,000 families whose homes were destroyed during last summer's Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip are to receive financial support for a year. The...

3/30/2015 - TEHRAN (AFP) -- Two Iranian Revolutionary Guards posted to Iraq as advisers in the war against Islamic State were killed by a US drone in Tikrit, Iranian state media said Monday. The official IRNA news agency, reporting on the men's funerals...

3/30/2015 - SANAA (AFP) -- At least 45 people were killed when an air raid struck a camp for displaced people in northwest Yemen on Monday, the International Organization for Migration said."IOM is reporting 45 dead among internally displaced persons, 65 injured (and counting...

30 Mar 2015 - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday stormed a chain of agricultural stocks under construction in Jenin’s town of Ramana and expelled all the workers who were inside the building.

KUWAIT CITY / DUBAI 31 March 2015 (IRIN) - High-level officials from 78 countries and more than 40 international organisations are gathering in Kuwait City to take part in the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria on Tuesday, amid major concerns of funding shortages.

31 Mar 2015 - Egyptian prosecutors are bringing criminal charges against witnesses who said they saw the police kill an unarmed poet and activist during a demonstration, a lawyer who has seen the charges said on Monday.

31 Mar 2015 - Despite efforts by FIFA president Sepp Blatter, Palestinians remain frustrated at restrictions they say Israel imposes on the movement of their athletes between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

31 Mar 2015 - “The biggest threat to our security and future was and remains Iran's attempt to arm with nuclear weapons,” he said. “The agreement being put together at Lausanne is paving the way for that result.”

31 Mar 2015 - Lapid said he would submit a series of anti-corruption bills, starting with one that would prevent criminals convicted of crimes deemed as bearing moral turpitude from serving in government.

31 Mar 2015 - The complaints by 26 Americans on flights which were redirected or cancelled or were present at the airport on July 22 when most American and international airlines cancelled their flights.

30 Mar 2015 - Located on the city’s southern end, the neighborhood of some 20,000 residents, creates a wedge between Israeli Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem from the nearby Palestinian city of Bethlehem.

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